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Entrance to a Village

ca. 1665
Not on view
This picture represents the artist's favorite theme of quiet village life, an image that also appealed to patrons in the bustling city of Amsterdam. Hobbema trained there with Jacob van Ruisdael during the second half of the 1650s. His paintings were extremely popular in eighteenth-century England and with American collectors of the Gilded Age (about 1870–1915).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Entrance to a Village
  • Artist: Meyndert Hobbema (Dutch, Amsterdam 1638–1709 Amsterdam)
  • Date: ca. 1665
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 29 1/2 x 43 3/8 in. (74.9 x 110.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
  • Object Number: 14.40.614
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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